`Rambo` Invades The Philippines

July 28, 1985|By Edited by Howard Reich.

Sylvester Stallone, star of ``Rambo: First Blood Part II,`` has dethroned Bruce Lee and Sean Connery as action king of the Philippines, according to local reports. ``Rambo`` opened in 25 theaters in Manila, an unusually large number for that city, and is expected to be a top box-office draw throughout the summer.

Ironically, ``Rambo`` was supposed to be shot in the Philippines, but President Ferdinand Marcos` military wouldn`t let Stallone`s bodyguards into the country with guns.

``When Stallone heard they couldn`t come armed,`` says a Manila film executive who was to have worked on the film, ``he said no way would he film here.``